A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
HERMAN MELVILLEWe cannot live for ourselves alone.
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Art is the objectification of feeling.
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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
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As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
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The most mighty of nature’s laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
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I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody’s religious obligations, no matter how comical.
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Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
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